State Department reveals its first-ever ‘Intersex Envoy’: Female official discovered at age 41 that her testes were secretly removed during hysterectomy when she was 16

• • Zieselman is a ‘respected intersex expert and advocate,’ according to State
  • Her appointment comes after the department began offering the X gender marker on U.S. passport forms over the summer
  • Zieselman, who is intersex herself, is the former executive director of interACT: Advocates for IntersexYouth and author of ‘XOXY: A Memoir’